Connective tissue that is dominated by collagen fibres organized into a definitive pattern (e.g., parallel to one another), with comparatively fewer cells (mostly fibroblasts). [ http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 VSAO:0000050 PSPUB:0000170 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 ]
Synonyms: typus regularis (textus connectivus collagenosus compactus) dense regular collagenous tissue dense fibrous connective tissue dense regular collagenous connective tissue regular dense connective tissue
Term information
- Wikipedia:Dense_regular_connective_tissue
- XAO:0004030
- VSAO:0000050
- NCIT:C33453
- FMA:64781
- SCTID:22560007
- UMLS:C0225333 (ncithesaurus:Regular_Dense_Connective_Tissue)
Regular connective tissue, the intercellular matrix of which consists predominantly of collagen fiber bundles arranged in parallel arrays.[FMA]
Connective tissue that is dominated by collagen fibres organized into a definitive pattern (e.g., parallel to one another), with comparatively fewer cells (mostly fibroblasts).[VSAO]
Term relations
- regular connective tissue and has part some elastic fiber and composed primarily of some collection of collagen fibrils